Pulling ourselves together.
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shewhomustWe have rehung the bedroom curtains and transferred back to our own bed in time to vacate the spare bed for D. to sleep in. (Other beds are also available, but having a spare bedroom for a guest is preferable, and achieving this gave me a pleasant illusion of being in control.)
Hanging the curtains was not as simple as that sounds: oh, well, actually hanging the curtains was a doddle, but fixing the new curtain rail was hard work and took both of us the best part of a day, during which I mentally composed a rant about DIY, and how the whole DIY industry is geared to selling things cheap rather than making them easy to use (because once you've bought curtain rail which claims to be suitable for bay windows they don't care how much you have to struggle with it).
Because we had stripped the bed and moved our sleeping arrangements elsewhere, we spent a certain amount of time looking at the mattress and thinking we ought to replace it (actually, the mattress is fine, as far as we can tell, but the covering is worn through, and it doesn't seem to be possible to get a mattress re-covered). We spent some time lying on beds in the department stores of Newcastle, and had identified our choice of mattress (it was, naturally, the most expensive one) but now we are sleeping in our own bed again, we are so comfortable that we probably won't bother, not until things get a lot worse.
Which means we might as well replace the storage drawers under the bed, having first vacuumed them to remove the extraordinary accumulation of dust (much of which is probably escaped from the mattress). Oh, but wait, some of them have been temporarily filled with books: so first I need to make up my mind about the bedroom bookcases...
Well, maybe I'll think about that this morning, while I'm in the gardenhacking back the triffids filling a bag with garden waste to go to the tip.
Hanging the curtains was not as simple as that sounds: oh, well, actually hanging the curtains was a doddle, but fixing the new curtain rail was hard work and took both of us the best part of a day, during which I mentally composed a rant about DIY, and how the whole DIY industry is geared to selling things cheap rather than making them easy to use (because once you've bought curtain rail which claims to be suitable for bay windows they don't care how much you have to struggle with it).
Because we had stripped the bed and moved our sleeping arrangements elsewhere, we spent a certain amount of time looking at the mattress and thinking we ought to replace it (actually, the mattress is fine, as far as we can tell, but the covering is worn through, and it doesn't seem to be possible to get a mattress re-covered). We spent some time lying on beds in the department stores of Newcastle, and had identified our choice of mattress (it was, naturally, the most expensive one) but now we are sleeping in our own bed again, we are so comfortable that we probably won't bother, not until things get a lot worse.
Which means we might as well replace the storage drawers under the bed, having first vacuumed them to remove the extraordinary accumulation of dust (much of which is probably escaped from the mattress). Oh, but wait, some of them have been temporarily filled with books: so first I need to make up my mind about the bedroom bookcases...
Well, maybe I'll think about that this morning, while I'm in the garden
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Date: 2011-02-28 06:24 pm (UTC)Curtain rails, yes. I have ordered an admirer to come and fix mine (for money) not to have to even try myself. He promised to do it. But first I must sew those flowery cretonne curtains.
Maybe tomorrow?
Lately I had a discussion with a technician about modern technical equipment and domestic devices such as washing machines (his is over thirty years old and working just fine, if not: he just repairs it, easily), which are all constructed to fall apart after a short while and that in such a final way as to make us all buy new ones instead. Because it is better to have mama nature littered with thrown-away, three-year old machines of all sorts and kinds full of poisonous stuff than to let them be repairable as would be no problem with today´s techniqual achievements but is deliberately avoided by producers of such: Money, money, money...
There, a fulltime rant;)
Someone had to do it.
Can´t one buy mattress covers in shops selling textiles? I was convinced of this! I love the idea of books underneath the bed. My writer friend Inger Edelfeldt used to keep hers in the fridge and freezer for lack of other space in her Stockholm appartment. Which proves how cool books and reading are. Homes have a way of throwing oneself back onto habits of same self like when one can only change this after moving that because this stupid thing is in the way and needs fixing. And then one stumbles over something one had utterly forgotten. Sewing machines, saynomore, nudgenudge! I just found out I keep my brother´s suitcase he lent me in october under my bed at calling the pet name of a stray sock...and there is something lurking inside that black bag, too.
Beware of those triffids! Plants are dangerous people. I know at least one man afraid of flowers and he has a good (cute) head so he gave the pot to me who is a grown-up. It´s just that many are those who have not yet seen this particular danger of nature coming at them. Until it is too late...They are looking at me writing this.
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Date: 2011-02-28 09:03 pm (UTC)And I'm glad you asked about the mattress covers: since writing this I have discovered that you can buy this very thing (http://www.johnlewis.com/31449/Style.aspx), from the shop where we were told that no, it isn't possible to get a mattress recovered - true, but not as helpful as it would have been to add "but maybe this would do instead". To punish them, we might sulk, and not buy anything from them; but it would make more sense to cover the mattress! So, our mattress was 4 foot 6 inches wide when we bought it, and has now spread a little: we measure it at 138 cm. Do we buy 135cm or 150?
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Date: 2011-02-28 09:15 pm (UTC)Aha, but there it is? I´d definitely go for some serious sulking, though. Serves them right for not serving their customers. Pft! Once you have gotten over their stupidity (too rich already, one supposes, so no need to sell more? maybe someone should switch sales-people from the mattress- to the fridge business) if indeed possible, I´d say go for 135. It seems closer to home, somehow. Just put the thing on a diet! All pieces of furniture and decoration need one this time of year. Otherwise they take over our homes like triffids take over first Manhattan, then Tripolis. Or something along those paths. I think.
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Date: 2011-03-01 01:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-01 11:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-01 11:07 am (UTC)Or maybe hoping that if they don't sell us a mattress-cover, we'll buy a whole new mattress?
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Date: 2011-03-01 11:44 am (UTC)